Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

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The reliance on property is…the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property…(Essays)

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

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The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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